Waving soul

What's really crazy about this is that the citizens of Trash Mountain really do just mind their own business. It's specifically mentioned they don't want to live within city walls while making up a significant portion of Lowtown's economy by reclaiming and recycling the city's garbage. These people by and large aren't criminals or bandits causing problems for the citizens within the city's walls.

So not only is Goa's king planing to murder a bunch of innocent people trying to "clean up" a problem his own policies created, but he's also hurting the citizens he ostensibly does care about in the process.

And then after the Celestial Dragons leave the kingdom just...starts dumping garbage again. No efforts are made whatsoever to ensure that the problem of Trash Mountain never repeats itself. There is no long-term solution.

The first time Tashigi tripped over nothing in front of Smoker, he caught her instinctively without missing a beat. They stared at each other for like a minute before Smoker admitted he had a friend "back in the day" who couldn't walk in a straight line without face-planting

Elsewhere, Rosinante sneezes and glares into the distance bc apparently somebody is talking shit

~🥜❦

For those who are unaware, Oda revealed in I believe Data Book Yellow that he heavily based Whitebeard on a man he knew, a gruff old bartender dependent on oxygen who liked to yell at whippersnappers and tell old war stories. Apparently the guy was delighted when Oda told him, and with that retrospect you can just tell in how Oda presents Whitebeard he respected him a lot.

There's a quote from Oda in the SBS for volume 82 that suits Whitebeard particularly well, and it becomes especially poignant when you know he was based on a real person

Slightly better quality video of Smoker and Tashigi in the new One Piece Base Shop exclusive animation.

A Special Letter from Eiichiro Oda (CREATOR) | Presented at Jump Festa 2026

Out of context One Piece: a collection, part 2

Because the joy this anime brings is never-ending.

No one is safe from Luffys charm.

Based on my own post.

I have wanted to make this sense I watch that episode but only got myself to make it now.